BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Lawbolisted Powerful

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

jesseengland-13425 Christmas horror movies are a very niche genre, with the original "Black Christmas" and "Silent Night, Deadly Night" being the most well known. While Black Christmas (2006) shares its name with the 1974 original, it bares little resemblance to its predecessor. One might remember the 00s as being an abysmal era for horror, with a slew of Saw rip-offs and torture porn gradually replacing the horror elements that made the genre scary. Black Christmas (2006) is the epitome of this, favoring cheap gross out tactics over plot, cohesion, and terror.Similar to Rob Zombie's Halloween, Black Christmas spends a great deal of its time adding an overblown and absurd backstory to its killer. Just like Zombie's Halloween: this actually makes our boogeyman LESS scary. The rest of the film chronicles our unlikable victims in their sorority on Christmas Eve, as they deal with a snow storm and some obscene phone calls. This set-up is about the only thing retained from original. Except, unlike the original, there is virtually no character development and everyone is basically just there to be killed. There are some attempts to pepper the dialogue with bits of girl power jargon, which is confusing since our characters spent all the time prior hating each other. Of course, we also have an expositional character who happens to know the entire history of the house and its killer, etc. One might think their sole focus on humorously desperate shock and gore would at least generate some cool death scenes, but that's not really the case. Most kills in this movie are fairly basic and unremarkable, unlike the original (who can forget the unicorn statue and the children's choir caroling in the background?). So, with all the original elements and storyline gone, what do we get? The killer's sister was added into the mix, looking like White Chicks on meth. There's also a second ending (or something) so ludicrous and pointless, that I felt a strong sense of cringe having to watch it with my significant other in the room. This, like the addition of the killer's sister, added nothing to the story. Seeing Andrea Martin return was the only decent thing about this movie. It takes a special film to garner a 1-star from me, but this movie embodies everything bad about 00s horror movies. If you want better gore, horror, or anything: look elsewhere. Do yourself a favor and watch the original instead.

Sam Panico This movie is pretty much wall to wall gore, in marked contrast to the original. Yet I found myself really involved in its pacing, in the cinematography and even the lighting. It's not a slapdash affair.After the critical and financial failure of this film, Bob Clark began work on a sequel to the original with Olivia Hussey and John Saxon reprising their roles of Jess and Lt. Ken Fuller. Jess would have been the new house mother in this version, but Clark died before it could get made.Despite the pain that it took to make the film, I really think it's worth watching. It shouldn't take over for the original, but it's worth your time this holiday season.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Bloody re-make of the 1974 slasher flick has a jaundice affected psycho Billy Lenz, Robert Mann,brake out of a local sanitarium as cause havoc among the students of the Delta Alpha Kappa sorority that was once his home. Having been abused by his deranged mother,Karin Konoval, who hated him because of his skin color-yellow-and really wanted a girl Billy was later raped by her who later produced a girl Agnas, Dean Friss, of her own with Billy being both her brother as well as father. Revenge came soon enough with Billy killing both his mom and her boyfriend, who was impotent,and ending up being put away for life at the State's Clark Sanitarium.That's until Christmas Eve 2006 where Billy now 35 broke out and headed for the sorority house to murder and dismember, by poking out his victims eyes, everyone there. Obviously insane and delusional Billy with the help of his sister/daughter Agnas end up murdering almost all the girls at the sorority for what seems like no reason at all, they never did him or Agnas any harm, just to show how crazy that the two are. The usual blood splattering scenes you would expect in a movie like this but it being done on Christmas making it far worse then it could have been if it was done on non religious holidays like "Halloween" or "Saint Valentine Day" or "Alfonso-Scareface Al-Capone's Birthday".***SPOILERS***We get the standard or usual slasher movie ending with both Billy and Agnas coming back to life-After being killed off-to finish the very job that they both started. Only to be killed for a second time in a far more bloody and spectacular fashion. In Billy's case being impaled on a Christmas tree as part of its holidays decorations. Actress Andrea Martin who was one of the killer's victims in the original "Black Christmas" in 1974 was back again for an encore as housemother Ms. Barbara MacHenry who ended up getting brained by a falling icicle as she was trying to flee for her life from the two psycho killers.

moviesmaniax If you expect this to be anything like its original film, then you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why. Black Christmas remake here is pretty much straight forward on delivering the blood and hot chicks getting slaughter one by one rather than building up the scare like the original film. However, it has its effort in doing so but still it's just too silly and quite unintentionally funny and laughable in couple of scenes. The GORES here are pretty much satisfying enough even though it looks fake but it's just purely to make it gleefully fun for horror fans. It does borrow some elements from the original version and tries to be SCARY but ultimately fails most of the time. Nonetheless what I really admire this film for is the tone and lighting which really gives a grisly festive mood and makes it quite visually appealing to watch throughout. Overall, this is slasher Christmas-themed film that's gleefully offensive in its content and bloody silly enough to be remembered as another fun, brainless, and cheesy movie suitable for you naughty peeps to watch on Christmas and ruins all the good-spirit of this festival.>>C+<<